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...course of the week, their predicament had changed dramatically. In the beginning, they were caught in a classic political hijacking, at the mercy of two desperate and determined men armed with grenades and a 9-mm pistol. By the third day, however, after more than 100 of the plane's original occupants had been released as the Boeing 727 zigzagged back and forth between Beirut and Algiers, they had become political hostages to a cause that few had previously known much, if anything, about...
...news agencies there. The confusion may stem from Iran's recent efforts to play down its connections with terrorists in hopes of winning international support for its 4 1/2-year struggle against Iraq. Atwa told police that his friends had managed to smuggle two grenades and a 9-mm pistol through the airport's X-ray machines by wrapping the weapons in fiber glass insulation...
Scarcely 20 minutes after the plane had taken off for Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, on a flight that was supposed to continue via a Boeing 747 to Boston, Los Angeles and San Diego, it was taken over by the two terrorists, who wildly brandished their grenades and pistol. They gave the pilot, Captain John Testrake of Richmond, Mo., the first order: fly to Beirut. At Beirut International Airport, the last thing officials wanted was a skyjacking crisis on their hands, and so they blocked the airport runway with buses and other obstacles. But the terrorists and their captive...
...Paulo described him as lonely; he received visits only occasionally, from a son whom he introduced as a nephew and from a family emissary, apparently Hans Sedlmeier, the Mengele firm clerk. Pedro got no mail, kept no telephone and maintained no bank accounts. He slept with a Mauser pistol by his bedside, according to some reports; often he had difficulty getting to sleep and read or wrote deep into the night...
...Aleksey Gavilovich Tkachenko, drove near the spot, but did not stop. Finally, the agents moved in and picked up a brown shopping bag. At 3 a.m. they surprised Walker at a nearby Ramada Inn. He tried to flee down a hallway but prudently decided not to use the loaded pistol he was carrying...